The B-47 set the stage for subsequent jet bombers and represented a critical leap in U.S. strategic bombing capabilities. A slew of U.S. bomber aircraft have transcended the military community to ...

Influenced by the research and application of swept-wing design by the Germans in World War Two, the first Boeing XB-47 took flight on Dec. 17, 1947, the 44-year anniversary of the first flight at ...

President Donald Trump announced the Pentagon’s decision to move forward with a next-generation fighter jet titled F-47 on ...

But throughout the early 1950s SAC still considered the Boeing B-47 bomber its primary nuclear weapons delivery aircraft. When it entered operational service, its six jet engines and thin swept ...

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To the bomber pilots who flew the aircraft, the B-47 offered fighter-like performance, a vast improvement over the B-29s and B-50s we had been flying. Besides its swept wings and six jet engines ...

The United States has a total of 20 B-2 stealth bombers - the world's most advanced military aircraft, of which six have now been deployed in the Indian Ocean Region - that's roughly 30 per cent ...